Moving Files Between YDL Machines

[Patrick Larkin]

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Patrick:
>
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 02:16  PM, Patrick Larkin wrote:
>> I need to automate the movement of files between machines.  I need to 
>> move datafiles created on a MacOS X machine to two YDL machines.  I 
>> need to be able to script the transfer and to use cron to run move 
>> the files at a precise time.
>
> What is your network situation like? Are you behind a corporate 
> firewall? In that case, you might risk an FTP server.
>
> Otherwise, could you serve up the files as Web links from the Mac OS X 
> box? It should be easy to script fetching of Web pages using curl.
>
> On the other hand, I might not know what I am talking about....
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint

Well, the machine where the files are generated are outside the 
firewall but the two recipient YDL machines are behind the firewall.  
The MacOS X machine has 2 NIC cards - one for the outside and one for 
the inside.

And good places to get examples on how to script FTP?


Patrick Larkin
Bethlehem Area School District